Airstrikes in Aleppo

People walk by a building in the Sha'ar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, which was destroyed by a barrel bomb, on June 3, 2014. Fifteen people died in the June 1 attack.

A boy pushes water container past war-damaged buildings in the Hanano neighbourhood of Aleppo on June 3, 2014. Hanano has been one of the districts worst affected by barrel bombs and other aerial assaults.

Aisha, 2, takes cover in the building in which she lives after a Syrian government airforce jet is heard in Aleppo's Hanano neighbourhood on June 3, 2014. Hanano has been one of the districts worst affected by bar ell bombs and other aerial assaults.

Living with airstrikes means a life interrupted by moments of terror. A mother clings to her child as a plane circles above her house in East Aleppo in the summer of 2012. Minutes ago it bombed the house next door, and shot up a car outside her door. Fortunately for her the bomb across the street was a dud. An ambulance will arrive shortly and take them to a different area.

Before the devastation caused by airstrikes would become a way of life in eastern Aleppo, people from neighbourhoods less affected by the war came to see the worst hit areas. This street, hit repeatedly by airstrikes in September 2012, and in a far worse state than others around it was frequently visited by people taking pictures on their phones for posterity, or just gazing in awe at the utter destruction.

Rubble fills a street in Sha'ar, Aleppo, on June 3, 2014. A nearby building was hit in a barrel bomb attack that killed 15 people on June 1.

A man reacts after returning to the site where members of his family died when six houses were destroyed by an aeriel bombardment early in the morning on Thursday 13th September. 11 people were killed in the strike.